The Dirtbag Diaries

    This is what adventure sounds like. Climb. Ski. Hike. Bike. Paddle. Run. Travel. Whatever your passion, we are all dirtbags. Outdoor writer Fitz Cahall and the Duct Tape Then Beer team present stories about the dreamers, athletes and wanderers.

  • Local: Alastair Humphreys

  • The Shorts— In Focus

  • Live From Duluth

  • Bridging Oceans

  • The Shorts— Holding On By Letting Go

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 15

  • Endangered Spaces: Cochamó, Chile

  • Winter Vacation

  • Pattie Gonia: Naturally Iconic

  • How To Make Your Vote Count

  • Mr Hodges

  • Testing The Waters

  • Meet Your Heroes

  • The Shorts— Lookin' For Love

  • The Underdog

  • The Shorts— Going The Distance

  • Heed The Call

  • Outside/In: 'Til The Landslide Brings It Down

  • Beth Rodden: A Light Through The Cracks

  • States of Adventure book Pre-order

  • Live From 5Point Vol. 10

  • The Shorts— Everybody Loves Lyle

  • Querencia (Español)

  • Homecoming (English)

  • The Only Way Out Is Through

  • The Shorts-- Chasing A Vision

  • Race Day

  • The Winter Rangers

  • The Shorts-- The Wilderness Within

  • The FIFTY

  • Grand Traverse

  • The Shorts--The Myth of Stars

  • Right Place, Right Time Rivalry

  • DBD+ Preview: A Fine Line with Graham Zimmerman

  • Paso a Paso (English)

  • Paso a Paso (Español)

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 14

  • The Shorts--Seeking Caribou

  • Diaries+ Preview: Right Place, Right Time Rivalry

  • Endangered Spaces--Castner Range

  • Diaries+ Preview: Yes To Never

  • The Shorts -- Walking Tall

  • Mayor of Eldo

  • Diaries+ Preview: Ask Me Anything

  • The Shorts -- Suddenly Solo

  • Diaries+ Preview: Will To Wild with Shelby Stanger

  • Endangered Spaces: Eastern Sierra

  • Diaries+Preview: Forbidden Ring

  • The Shorts—One Paddle At A Time

  • Diaries+ Preview: Bonk! Listener Edition

  • Take The Wheel

  • Thin Green Line

  • Diaries+ Preview: Bonk!

  • The Shorts--In My Heart All Along

  • Alpine Classroom

  • Diaries+ Preview: Beyond The Wall

  • The Confluence

  • The Shorts--Esker Calling

  • Diaries+ Preview: More with Majka Burhardt

  • Mt. Doom Magic

  • The Elk

  • More Type II Fun

  • The Shorts--Two Nudes and a Newb

  • Endangered Spaces--Colorado River

  • Last Skier Standing

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2023

  • The Zars Brothers

  • Dope Lake Chapter 1: Misfits

  • The Shorts--Finding Footing

  • Door To Door

  • Dirtbag Movie Night: Director's Q&A

  • The Shorts--I Got You

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 13

  • Gear Love

  • The Shorts -Senditude

  • Beyond Mountains

  • Flip Trip

  • The Shorts-- Look For Butterflies

  • ¡Con Ganas!

  • Ask Us, We’ve Been There

  • The Shorts--Roundabout River

  • Bananas and Peanut Butter

  • You Slept Where?

  • The Shorts--Long Walk to Happiness

  • Crash And Burn

  • Rick's Rickshaw

  • The Shorts--Take The Bike

  • Close Quarters

  • Out of Bounds

  • The Shorts--Suzie's Line

  • Play It By Ear

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2022

  • Winter Vacation

  • The Best Gift: Make And Share

  • The Best Gift: An Old Bike

  • The Best Gift: A Shared Goal

  • The Best Gift: Time

  • The Shorts--Mad Dogs And An Englishman

  • Above Ground

  • The Shorts--In The Current

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 12

  • Story Call Out

  • Three Wheelin'

  • The Shorts--Two Feet In

  • Backcountry Brushes

  • Jump Start

  • The Shorts--Getting to Know Scoot

  • Snail Mail Stoke

  • Endangered Spaces--Oak Flat

  • The Shorts -- Coming In

  • Emergency Twix

  • Two Mountains

  • The Shorts -- The Dread

  • Flight of the Monarch

  • Sacred Slopes

  • The Shorts -- Balancing Act

  • Introducing Climbing Gold

  • False Summit

  • The Perfect Pace

  • The Shorts -- Little White Canoe

  • Invaluable

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2021

  • The Gift

  • The Shorts--The Inlet

  • ¡Venga, Venga!

  • The Shorts -- Backyard Adventures

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 11

  • What Unites Us

  • Setting New Sights

  • The Land That Never Has Been Yet

  • Hide-N-Seek

  • Credimus

  • Programming Pause

  • The Shorts -- Twindom

  • Dream Job

  • Endangered Spaces--The Elwha River Recovery

  • The Shorts -- The F You Wait

  • Brave Like Gabe

  • A Tale of Two Saves

  • Unexpecting

  • Shenanigans

  • The Shorts -- Number 67

  • The Great Indoors

  • The UnderDonkey

  • The Shorts -- Franked

  • Bolder Love

  • Mr. Hodges

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2020

  • Shop Magic

  • All In The Family

  • Widge

  • The Shorts-- Dada Needs Ski Patrol

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 10

  • The 50,000 Ft. View

  • Better Than I Found It

  • The Shorts -- Out and Back

  • Tandemonium

  • The Shorts--Beyond Failure

  • Fit To Print

  • Endangered Spaces - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

  • The Shorts-- Fistful of Hearts

  • The Dreamer

  • Flip Of A Coin

  • The Shorts -- Restless for Roots

  • The Land And Water Conservation Fund

  • Solo She Rides

  • The Shorts-- My Cathedral

  • The Shorts-- The Van Fan

  • Living For The Lost

  • Walk To Connect

  • Novel Inspiration

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2019

  • Mountain Hollow Dreams

  • The Shorts-- Saving Santa

  • Endangered Spaces--Cook Inlet

  • Hit Pause

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 9

  • Moto Gypsy

  • Anti-Gravity

  • Hootin' & Hollerin'

  • Ethan and G-Pop

  • The Glacier Project

  • The Shorts--A Story of My Own

  • The Elephant in the Boat - Part II

  • The Shorts-- Better Than Good Enough

  • The Elephant in the Boat - Part I

  • Introducing Safety Third: Channel Risk Into Reward

  • The Shorts--Spirit B

  • Flyathlon

  • The Shorts--The Amazement Meter

  • Venture Out

  • The Shorts--Unlearning Adventure Sports

  • Escape From Beacon Rock

  • The Shorts--Aloha Life

  • The Punk Rockers of Ski Mountaineering

  • Endangered Spaces--Prince of Wales

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2018

  • Growing Down

  • The Shorts--Zarsian Adventures

  • The Shorts--T-Day

  • Over the Line

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 8

  • The Shorts--Yard Sale

  • Endangered Spaces--Boundary Waters

  • The Shorts--Thirst

  • Winnebago Warriors

  • The Shorts--Double Vision

  • 81

  • Endangered Spaces--Katahdin Woods and Waters

  • The Shorts--Exit Strategy

  • Pedal Strokes and Perspective

  • Picaflor

  • The Shorts--Let Joy Rule Your Life

  • The Bet

  • The Shorts--Catching Hope

  • Endangered Spaces--Bears Ears

  • The Fear is Real

  • Leaving the Races Behind

  • The Shorts--The Chute

  • The Year of Big Ideas 2017

  • The Shorts--Vanlife

  • To Infinity

  • The Shorts--The Skin Track

  • coMOMdo

  • What's Next?

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 7

  • Mileposts--Greater than the Sum of its Parts

  • The Shorts--The Dirtbag Ministry Co-Op

  • Paul's Boots--An Update from the Trail

  • Mothers Have It Hardest - Kyle Dempster Tribute

  • No Way Around It

  • Mileposts--Calling Home

  • Start Saying Yes

  • Mileposts--The Grit to Make it Happen

  • The Suffer Vest

  • The Ultimate Weekend Warrior

  • Little Explorers Club

  • Live From 5Point Vol. 9

  • Green Light

  • The Shorts--I Poo, A Love Story

  • Trespassers

  • Mileposts--The Miracle of Darkness

  • A Slosh in the Bucket

  • The Shorts--Tower Climbing, Baby!

  • Mileposts--Celebrate with a Milkshake

  • Roll The Dice

  • Paul's Boots

  • The Shorts--If The Shoe Fits

  • Everybody Loves LeeRoy

  • The Shorts--Powder and Hookah Smoke

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 6

  • The Shorts--Commit Fully

  • The Shorts--Squalls

  • Beyond the Lines

  • The Shorts--The Hourglass

  • 700

  • The Shorts--Painkillers and Perspective

  • Live from 5Point Vol. 8

  • The Shorts--Sleeping Bag Metamorphosis

  • The Modern Dirtbag

  • The Shorts--Two Wheels to Anywhere

  • The Shorts--Blind Date with the Desert

  • The Threshold Moment

  • The Shorts--The Swallow and the Anchor

  • El Avalanchisto

  • The Shorts--365 Days

  • Adventure 1000

  • Flying Deep

  • The Journey Within

  • More Than Just a Camping Trip

  • What You're Handed

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 5

  • The Shorts--Hooch

  • The Shorts--5 Steps to Bailing

  • The Shorts--Go For It!

  • Mothers Have it Hardest

  • The Shorts--The Drowning Machine

  • Widge

  • The Shorts--My Bluebird of Happiness

  • Live from 5Point Vol. 7

  • The World By Bike

  • The Treewok

  • The Shorts--Denial on Denali

  • The Shorts-- Dreams Coming True

  • The Remotest

  • The Shorts--Zen and the Art of Skiing Powder

  • Starting Small

  • If You Build It

  • The Shorts--Fighting With Our Feet

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 4

  • The Shorts--By Slim Chance

  • The Shorts--Cave Sweet Cave

  • Rebirth of Belief

  • Home Front

  • The Shorts--The Making Of A Patriot

  • Mikey Buys a House

  • The Shorts--Bootstrapping

  • Live from 5Point Vol. 6

  • Live from 5Point Vol. 5

  • The Shorts--Ode to An Ice Chest

  • The Shorts--Hey, Bear!

  • Benighted

  • The Shorts--Castleton Fall

  • Be Mine

  • The Shorts- Just Make It Happen

  • The Magic of Serendipity

  • The Shorts--Pedaling to Silence

  • The Sufferthon

  • The Shorts-Don Manuel's Nails

  • Making It

  • Tales of Terror Volume 3

  • The Shorts--Dream, Interrupted

  • The Shorts-Meditation in Motion

  • Crash and Burn

  • The Shorts--One Last Hike

  • The Shorts--Parking Lot Players

  • Stepping Stones

  • The Shorts--5 Types of B.O.

  • Live From 5 Point Vol. 4

  • Live From 5Point Vol. 3

  • The Shorts-Pedal Your Turns

  • The Shorts-Post-Emphatic Wilderness Disorder

  • Origins

  • The Shorts--The Mobil

  • Frozen Lemonade

  • The Shorts--By Any Means Necessary

  • Transitions--Efficiency Manifesto

  • Lifestyle Tips for the Committed

  • Tales of Terror Vol. 2

  • The Shorts--Wheels

  • The Way of the Underdog

  • The Shorts--Drifting to a Fork in the River

  • You Are Not Alone

  • The Shorts--Conquering Sherman

  • The Shorts--Penance

  • Live From 5Point Vol. 2

  • Live from 5Point Vol. 1

  • The Shorts--Dispatch from the Middle

  • Ditch Logic

  • The Shorts--The Pee Tree

  • Sodade

  • The Shorts--Sitting In Silence

  • What Is Hardcore?

  • The Shorts--How She Got There

  • Buckle Down

  • What We Had

  • The Shorts-Cardboard Canadian

  • Unseen But Felt

  • The Shorts--The Lost Art

  • Tales of Terror

  • The Shorts -- Packing

  • Embrace This

  • The Shorts -- Zones of Subduction

  • Go West

  • The Shorts -- Dirtbag Resume

  • The Accidental Journalist

  • The Shorts -- Yosemite's Next Top Idol

  • The Pugilist

  • The Shorts-Scars

  • A Successful Life

  • The Shorts--Upward Mobility

  • The Adventures of Beansprout

  • The Shorts -- Trekker's Blues

  • Fueled By Strawberry Jam

  • Forty Miles A Poem

  • Fun Divided By Three

  • The Shorts -- Friends In High Places

  • The New Conservationists

  • The Shorts -- Underwriting Adventure

  • Seeds

  • The Shorts -- Knees and Weather Permitting

  • Three Eighths to Eternity

  • The Shorts -- Summer Invocation

  • The Dreamers

  • Sixty Meters to Anywhere

  • The Shorts -- Great White Book

  • The Cowboy and the Maiden

  • Beginner's Mind

  • The Adventurer's Parable

  • 731 Days Later...

  • Into the Dark

  • Mister Smart Goes Big

  • The Peach

  • Bedtime Stories for Wanderers

  • O Tannenbaum

  • The Shorts -- Friendship is a Used Bicycle

  • Fear Squared

  • The Shorts -- Balance

  • No Car No Problem

  • The Shorts: The Simple Joy of Moving Upward

  • The Shorts -- The Pig

  • The Crusade

  • The Shorts: Year of Big Ideas Reprieve

  • The Human Mule

  • The Earth Throne

  • The Shorts -- Indiana Powder Day

  • The Golden Hour

  • All These Things

  • Datos Insuficientes

  • The Year of Big Ideas

  • A Lifeline Home

  • The Reckoning

  • Help Wanted

  • Prayer for a Friend

  • No Big Deal

  • Anatomy of an Accident

  • A Brief Moment in a Beautiful Place

  • A Thousand Words

  • The Great Big Garage in the Sky

  • The Brotherhood

  • The Monoboard

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